For the secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado, the homicide numbers of the last two in Uruguay are not “the desired ones”, but he affirmed that the other crimes are “going down”.
Delgado says that additional efforts will be put into the issue of homicides, and that “he knows” that the Ministry of the Interior, in charge of Luis Alberto Heber, “is playing that game.”
“It is not measured in quantities or margin of tolerance. The very firm action of the government to advance quickly, especially what has to do with the origin of drug trafficking, but here they are not class A or class B homicides,” said the nationalist leader and high-ranking government official in statements given to Telenoche Thursday.
The Marset case
The above statements were given to the press after participating in the act for the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of Uruguay, in the department of Florida, where he also took the opportunity to talk about the controversial case of Sebastián Marset, the Uruguayan drug trafficker whom the government of Luis Lacalle Pou granted him a passport.
Regarding the explanations given by Heber in Parliament -in which he blamed the Broad Front for leaving a regulatory framework that supposedly led to this episode-, Delgado stated that they were “very forceful” but added: “there were errors, there were” .
“But there are also some decisions to assume responsibilities by some middle managers and there is also a summary that I think is ending at this time, there may be more news,” he added.
